Learning to paint with acrylics is so challenging and really fun. Don't like it paint over it and practice some more. It's all new, paint selection, mixing, brushes and strokes. No doubt this piece will be history come morning. Maybe back to watercolor tomorrow... decisions,decisions!
Blind Contour Tabbycat
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8.5x5.5 mixed media over ink line blind contour cat in sketchbook done a
few days ago then finished today. Using Micron 01 and STA Lictin pens, dark
lines...
Showing My Art
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Showing my art at the Poquoson Public Library August 2024
Showing my art at the Poquoson Public Library August 2024
Showing my art at the Poquoson Public...
Tropic Influence
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Inspired by Perlas, Austin, TX
Custom scarf design for a wedding in Baha Mar, Bahamas
60x48 acrylic on canvas commission, see the daily progress on my s...
rode zonnehoed - purple coneflower
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Echinacea purpurea.Twee schilderijtjes uit 2014 die ik weer terugvond.Ze
stonden nog niet eerder op mijn blog.Two little paintings from 2014 that I
recentl...
Trees!
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I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here.
When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything; I begin just
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Peacock Bay
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This is a picture book scene from a corner of the Khadakwasla lake near
Pune in Maharashtra. In the backdrop is the mighty Sinhagad fort which is
seep...
Glamour/30’s style
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We draw from old films on some Sundays,this is
From “The Man Who Knew Too Much”,
Albert Hitchcock
we draw from old movies every other Sunday. This is f...
New website…
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Why did the chickens cross the road? To get to the new website! I have an
announcement…I have a new website going live later this week! This was long
o...
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Notre Dame ... objective 2024
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The confinement period of course meant some interruption of the
reconstruction work of the Notre Dame Cathedral, but it has now been
resumed for a couple...
"Aged Rose"
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I think there is so much beauty in anything that is ageing and this Rose is
no different. It started out as a yellow Rose and as time has passed the
col...
Here's to New Friends
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My husband Michael and I are just home from a cycling vacation in the
Eastern Townships of Quebec Province. On this (supported!) VBT tour, we
collected so...
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I did this quick demonstration on my latest YouTube channel after showing
how to build a quick table easel with three different heights. I was tired
of u...
Brush or knife?
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I usually paint on a larger scale with most supports 36" wide or tall and
ranging from a mere 4" or 48". Painting solely with a knife takes its toll
on...
REINSPIRED!!
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CUP SERIES #1 CUP SERIES #2 CUP SERIES #3 Add caption I am starting to hold
semi-private lessons in my studio on the variations theme. I have the
luxury ...
3 Upgrades to Your Kitchen to Help Sell Your Home
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When you are considering starting a remodeling project in your home, it is
important that you are thinking about the future. You not only need to
think abo...
Jour 30 - 30 Paintings in 30 Days
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LA RONDE DES FLEURS ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 6 X 6 INCHES Un petit format pour
terminer ce Défi de peinture que j'ai fort apprécié encore une fois. Une
autre occa...
Announcement
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Hi guys. I hope so much you are very well out there.
I have decided to limit my internet activity to one platform.
At a moment it is Instagram. See you ther...
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Hidden Darling
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*Hidden Darling*
*watercolor on Canson paper*
*24 x 32 cm *
A painting of what is in front of me, from direct observation.
I am finding it more diffi...
#simplegrace
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The simple grace of a tiny palette on a long road trip
Each year, for as long as I can remember, I've chosen a word to define my
goals or mindset for the...
30 in 30 in 30- Day 30!!!
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Hello Day 30! Challenge completed. (hope I don't pull something patting
myself on the back)
This is definitely a fall bouquet... with made-up stuff in it.
...
Roadside Painting
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My most favourite way of working is to travel the highways and byways of
France, stopping to paint whenever something catches my eye. Today it was
the wo...
I've Moved!
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*T*his is just a quick reminder, that I have moved my blog to a new
platform and just in case you didn't realise, I can now be found at:
http://www.sandra...
The Eye, Urban/Rural exhibition
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Vivien Blackburn's work in the Urban/Rural show
We've just hung a group show at the The Eye Project, Urban/Rural show. If
you want to come and see it it'...
Dead Soldiers
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Watercolor on Yupo with charcoal technique background.
Either do this outdoors or place the paper in a deep utility tub. Randomly
dampen the paper. Sprin...
East Valley Artists Thursday's demo
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Robert Dvorak was the demonstrator at my art club last night. He writes
books and gives workshops and demos concerning travel drawing and
painting. He's ...
Sketches with a group ..pune urban sketchers.
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In pune,india, we have started a group of enthusiastic urban
sketchers.They are a mix of artists,laypeople, and many architects and
designers..These sketc...
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I think this one is finished but I have a couple of days to look at it for
any adjustments. It is a 12x12 inch watercolor. Thanks to Alan & Elaine
Wil...
NORFOLK SEASCAPES
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Made a big decision this year to only paint Norfolk coastal scenes as well
as my love of flowers, so here are my first three efforts .
Top one based o...
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We no longer see the one who teaches us
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Musician, play this moment's music as grace
for those who block our road, grace for
bandits! Musician, you learned this from
a true bandit. I hear the te...
New Things, New York & Happy New Year
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*Hello. Happy New Year. How is it March already? I know its a cliché but
time really does fly. **We've had a nice start to 2014. Some good
projects...
Perfect Partners
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Going through my reference photos for the millionth time, a photo I took at
Longleat House caught my eye. I don't know why something that I've
previously ...
We've Moved!
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*A Painter's Year* has moved to my new site! Now all of my blogs and
galleries, news and information are under one roof at the new
www.susanabbott.com. Ple...
Seeking
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*I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God,*
*but God who had been seeking me.*
*I had made myself the center of my own exist...
Going Now
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This blog is now merged, smudged and mixed together with my main blog The
Red Shoes . So please transfer any interest and linking and lovely
comments that...